Univision is selling many of its Spanish-language radio stations — including Miami's ultraconservative Radio Mambí — to a group led by Democrats.

COMMENTARY Designating if not indicting Juan Orlando Hernández as head of a narco-state could bolster, not hinder, Biden's Central America project.

COMMENTARY South Florida Republicans won't admit it, but the historic Cuban protests they're capitalizing on now owe a debt to Obama's Cuba internet efforts.

COMMENTARY Gov. Ron DeSantis' new police bill is the state's latest assault on local government — and more imitation of socialist Venezuela

COMMENTARY: Miami isn't the serious forum for hemispheric affairs it could be because its Latin America discussion isn't really about Latin America.

COMMENTARY The pro-democracy credibility of Rick Scott, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez is as shattered now as glass inside the U.S. Capitol.

COMMENTARY Armando Salguero's controversial remarks point to a larger racial problem in South Florida's Latino community

COMMENTARY Congresswoman-elect Maria Elvira Salazar used the McCarthy tactics she once faced. Her success signals a darker South Florida political culture.

COMMENTARY Saturday's brief arrest of Cuban exile influencer Alex Otaola in Miami is a reminder of how much he sounds like communist leaders in Havana.

Biden and his campaign didn't take the GOP's "socialista" attacks seriously enough. On-the-ground Latino activists did. It may help him win Florida.

Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega has thrown more than 20 presidential candidates and opposition leaders in jail this summer. What should the U.S. and world do?

COMMENTARY Florida Sen. Marco Rubio disgracefully insults real dictatorship victims by equating Donald Trump's conviction with the real injustices of regimes like Cuba's.

COMMENTARY Cuban and other Latino media represent Miami's majority population – and need to stop acting like echo chambers immune from scrutiny.

Being expelled from your own country is a caustic experience that's making some of us, Venezuelan exiles, noxious to the cause we defend—whether we know it, or not

COMMENTARY This week's Miami City Commission spectacle is another reminder why Cuban-run Miami is rarely a democratic showcase for communist-run Cuba.

COMMENTARY It's great Cubans can present their point of view on a new book about immigration. But it's also about Haitians — whose views need some privilege too.

Critics say Colombian elected officials are increasingly involved in — and helped create — President Trump's 'socialismo' scare campaign against Joe Biden.

COMMENTARY Beringia's crossing, not Columbus' voyage, evokes humanity’s arrival in the New World — and more important, what being the New World means.

Seven years ago, Miami native Frank Mora left the Pentagon and came home to take over Florida International University’s Kimberly Green Latin American and…

COMMENTARY A poll finds Florida's Cuban electorate wants its immigration benefits revived – but not the U.S. engagement in Cuba that it requires.

Edmundo González Urrutia denunció que "se han violado todas las normas", luego de que el CNE anunciara el supuesto triunfo de Nicolás Maduro.

COMMENTARY What's driving Colombia's deadly unrest isn't the country's former leftist rebels, as South Florida expats insist, but its lingering reactionary rules.

Over the last year, rental rates in South Florida have exploded faster than anywhere else in the nation. Now, the affordable housing crisis is squeezing families like never before.

Florida's large Colombian community never got much attention from U.S. presidential candidates. Until now.

COMMENTARY If, by Donald Trump's reckoning, Latino immigrants are "poisoning America's blood," then Miami is the country's mother lode of polluted plasma.

COMMENTARY Trump toadies like Sen. Mike Braun have steered the U.S.'s constitutional standing closer to hemispheric horror shows like Venezuela's.

COMMENTARYSo, South Florida Cold War warriors, we hear you took offense at the commie claptrap coming out of Cuba this week.That you’re ticked off because…

Cuban and Latino Democrats scored a rare victory in their effort to counter right-wing Spanish-language radio in Miami. But is it really the win they hope for?

COMMENTARY The clique that claims to speak for Black Lives Matter is shamelessly clueless on Cuba. So are right-wingers when it comes to the BLM movement.

Miami isn’t just the so-called capital of Latin America. It’s also a top dance floor for Latin American hypocrisies, right-footed or left-footed. And we’ve watched a dazzling performance of that...

COMMENTARY Venezuelan Dictator-President Nicolás Maduro will inevitably lose a fair election — so he's goading his challenger to accept inevitable fraud.

The opposition’s greatest progress against autocracy has come when it has rallied the country’s voters.

Maria Elvira Salazar apparently has a short memory. Just two years ago the former TV journalist faced sleazy accusations during her Republican primary bid for Florida’s 27th congressional dis…

COMMENTARY Florida's orgy of homophobic lawmaking seeks to make LGBTQ people invisible in the 21st century — just as Cuba's Fidel Castro did in the 20th.

COMMENTARY Assembling a new governing council in Haiti will be grueling — but it's a chance to promote better leadership than the toxic ruling class Ariel Henry represents.

COMMENTARY Railing at the decision to remove Colombia's FARC from the U.S. terrorist list is good South Florida politics — not good Latin America policy.

COMMENTARY If you feared there's no successor to Joe Carollo as the blowtorch-bearer of Miami's banana republic politics, look no further than Kevin Cabrera.

COMMENTARY As the first person of Caribbean descent on a major U.S. presidential ticket, Kamala Harris challenges a key Trump tactic.

COMMENTARY After being schmoozed by the President for two years, Florida's Venezuelan community is at a sobering crossroads.

Colombia's social unrest is rooted in Latin America's crushing economic inequality — but in Florida, the GOP scores bigger points by falsely blaming it on Marxism.

Sudhir Hazareesingh's "Black Spartacus" illuminates the remarkable Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture — and the universal importance of the revolution he led.

COMMENTARY The pro-democracy credibility of Rick Scott, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez is as shattered now as glass inside the U.S. Capitol.

This interview was originally published May 26, 2020In South Florida we tend to think of the golden age of cocaine (if it can be called that) as the 1980s…

The buñuelo, in fact, is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s...

COMMENTARYIt’s a mystery why the Trump Administration chose Miami this week as one of only two major U.S. cities to be sent “riot teams” as protests…

COMMENTARY After arresting seven opposition leaders, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega confirms comparison with the thug dictator he once overthrew.

COMMENTARYAmerica’s immigrant labor hypocrisy — especially Trump America’s immigrant labor hypocrisy — stinks. And right now, as we used to say in…

COMMENTARY Cuban-Americans want countries to join an anti-apartheid-style front against Cuba. Do they recall how they dissed the anti-apartheid movement?

Expats have long insisted negotiating with Venezuela's dictatorial regime is tantamount to surrender. Reality is forcing a growing number of them to reconsider it.

COMMENTARY Too many South Florida politicians — most recently Vince Lago — use the suffering caused by despots in Latin America to spin disinformation here.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned as president of Peru in March because of a corruption scandal – just a month before he was supposed to host the Summit of…

In one of the most controversial moments of one of America’s most controversial presidencies, Donald Trump this month sent National Guard troops to…

As if the region's coronavirus catastrophe wasn't enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too.

COMMENTARY Outlawing the Jesuits isn't just a final gut punch to Nicaragua's democracy — it's a betrayal that seals Daniel Ortega's legacy as a power-poisoned snake.

COMMENTARY Florida Sen. Marco Rubio disgracefully insults real dictatorship victims by equating Donald Trump's conviction with the real injustices of regimes like Cuba's.

The possibility of relaxing U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil to replace banned Russian oil raises a larger issue of whether they have a real effect on the Maduro regime.

Donald Trump won a surprising number of Haitian-American votes in 2016. But since then he's burned a lot of bridges to Little Haiti. Will it burn him next week?

COMMENTARY From pushing 'Don't Say Gay' to pulling AP African American studies, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trashes the Western Civilization ideals he claims to champion.

COMMENTARY Unlike the GOP, Democrats have rarely ever got — or tried to get — what distinguishes Miami Latinos from others in the U.S. Is it now too late?

Florida's progressive and moderate Latino Democrats are at sharp odds after watching more of the state's Latino voters flock to the GOP in midterm elections.

COMMENTARY Nicolás Maduro's criminal electoral fraud cements his place in Venezuela's gallery of notorious dictators — and destroys his rotted revolution's founding lore.

COMMENTARY The pro-democracy credibility of Rick Scott, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez is as shattered now as glass inside the U.S. Capitol.